The Interaction between Ancient Textile Craft, Greek Poetry, and Music

With an introduction on the methodologies of the disciplines involved

Research and Development  Workshop
10 November 2015 at the CTR Library

The Science of Text: The Case of Classical Studies

13:00 – 13:15 Classical philology and its methods: a short overview. Giovanni Fanfani
13:15 – 13:35 An introduction to papyrology, with a special focus on documentary papyri.
Mario Paganini, Copenhagen Associations Project, The Saxo Institute
13:35 – 13:45 Digital Classicist 101: the classical scholar’s digital toolkit. Part 1: modelling textual data for the classical scholar. Maria Papadopoulou
13:45 – 14:00 Discussion

14:00 – 14:15

Coffee break

14:15 – 14:40 Convergences in poetic imagery between textile craft and music: discussion of some passages in archaic and classical Greek poetry.
Giovanni Fanfani
14:40 – 15:00  Songs to/at the loom in 20th century Sicily. The perspective of an ethnomusicologist – with a short introduction on ancient musical theory.
Giuseppe Sanfratello, The Saxo Institute
15:00 – 15:15 Discussion

15:15 – 15:30

Coffee break

15:30 – 15:50 Spectators in performance. Theocritus Idyll 15.
Maria Papadopoulou
15:50 – 16:00  Discussion
16:00 – 16:30 Cocktails and snacks